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DA: Deep roads Atrocity

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The Atrocity of the Deep roads.

First encountered by a group of dwarves from the Legion of the dead.
"it came from deep within the stone" they said. It seemed to have tunneled its way
to a larger section of the deep roads.

When it was first encountered, it wielded an ancient rusted sword of unkown origin.
After the first battle, its sword had shattered, so it took a large two-handed sword
belonging to one of the members of the legion.

when a group of dwarves fled and where being chased by it, the atrocity suddenly stopped.
one of the dwarves snuck back to see why. The atrocity had stopped near a large lyrium vein, it didn't do
anything to the lyrium, it just stared.

When next encountered, a Grey warden on his calling acompanied them, this time they did not attack,
they observed.


stone legs infused with lyrium that can disassemble and float, the warden theorized that it
could control the rocks because of the lyrium within them.

The metallic claw appeared to have been twisted into shape to replace the lower part of its arm.

The strange tentacles could extend quite a bit, whether or not they were made of flesh remains unkown.

Many things remained uncertain about the atrocity: Why did it have large horns on its skull when
they were clearly made from something other than bone, it almost looked wooden.

Why was the lyrium on its arms red?



In the end the dwarves could not defeat the atrocity, instead they caused a large section of the deep roads to collapse
in order to trap it.
It's hard to say if they ever where close to killing it,since it didn't seem to react to their attacks,
we may never know.

The dwarves and wardens could not determine what the atrocity really was, it seemed to share similarities
with the rock wraiths from dwarven legends.


Drawn by hand, colored in the computer.
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manaista's avatar
That looks like one creepy guy. Very eye catching!